Following the devastating 2013 Eden Valley bushfires in South Australia, the local council launched a community diary project, giving people a chance to write and publish their stories of those terrible few days.

A volunteer group in South Australia's Murraylands says hundreds of southern hairy nose wombats are starving to death, after recent bushfires wiped out key habitat and food sources.

The Wombat Awareness Organisation says poor rainfall during the past few years has meant a severe shortage of food for the animals and bushfires at Eden Valley and Rockleigh destroyed much of what was left.